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/Dialogues Videos Now Live

A panel discussion on Art Criticism and Rock and Roll for /Dialogues at EXPO CHICAGO

Videos of the SAIC-sponsored /Dialogues are now available online. Part of EXPO CHICAGO, /Dialogues is a series of panels and conversations that foster critical dialogue among art-world professionals. This year's programming spanned diverse topics from how abstraction deals with representations of Blackness to how the interplay between photography and architecture has been used to create new histories.

CHICAGO–Following a year where many Americans harbored growing doubts about global stability and international relations, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is offering a rare introspective of the Vietnam War through a film series at its Gene Siskel Film Center for students and members of the public. Marking the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, Apocalypse Then: The Vietnam War on Film features a new film about the Vietnam and Cambodian Wars each week, followed by a discussion.

From your screens on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, to the pages of the New York Times and Chicago Tribune, SAIC scientist-in-residence Eugenia Cheng is no stranger to high-profile interviews.
Aside from discussing what drove her to category theory, Cheng also defends mathematics against charges of stodginess and a lack of creativity.
"Doing mathematics is not about being a human calculator," she says

For more than 150 years, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been a leader in educating the world’s most influential artists, designers​, and scholars. Located in downtown Chicago with a fine arts graduate program consistently ranking among the top programs in the nation by U.S. News and World Report, SAIC provides an interdisciplinary approach to art and design as well as world-class resources, including the Art Institute of Chicago museum, on-campus galleries​, and state-of-the-art facilities. SAIC’s undergraduate, graduate​, and post-baccalaureate students have the freedom to take risks and create the bold ideas that transform Chicago and the world—as seen through notable alumni and faculty such as Michelle Grabner, David Sedaris, Elizabeth Murray, Richard Hunt, Georgia O’Keeffe, Cynthia Rowley, Nick Cave, Jeff Koons, and LeRoy Neiman.